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PHILOSOPHY
For Undergraduates
First-year students, entering the college from high or preparatory schools,
are not admitted to the courses in Philosophy or Psychology.
Philosophy B1: History of Philosophy: The history of philosophy
from the Greek philosophers to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Balz.
Philosophy B2: Ethics: The historical development of the chief types
of ethical theory. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Dent.
Philosophy B3: History of Morals: A descriptive and historical study
of moral ideas and practices. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Balz.
Philosophy B4: Political Philosophy: An historical study of political
and social thought from Plato to the present. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Dent.
Philosophy B5: Logic: First term: Scientific Methodology. Second
and third terms: Logic as a deductive science, including a study of some
recent developments in the logic of classes, relations, and systems, and their
application to the problems of science and philosophy. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Davenport.
Note: Prerequisite for Philosophy B8, B9, B10 and B11 will be Philosophy
B1 or any two other B courses from B2, B3, B4 and B5.
Philosophy B8: Plato: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of the
works of Plato. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Buchanan.
Philosophy B9: Spinoza: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of
the works of Spinoza. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Buchanan.
(Philosophy B8 and B9 will be given in alternate years: B9 in 1934-35, B8
in 1933-34.)
Philosophy B10: Aristotle: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of
the works of Aristotle. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Davenport.
Philosophy B11: Kant: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of the
Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason, and the Critique
of Judgment. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Davenport.
(Philosophy B10 and B11 will be given in alternate years. B10 in 1934-35
and B11 in 1933-34.)
For Graduates and Undergraduates
(Philosophy B1, the History of Philosophy, and one other B course in this
School are prerequisite for all C courses in Philosophy.)
Philosophy C1: History of Thought in the Nineteenth Century: A
study of the century which represents for us the transformation of old traditions
to modern modes of thought. Reading, comparison, and discussion of works
that mark the stages in the process.
Professor Buchanan.
Philosophy C10: Aesthetics: A critique of art and art criticism.
Professor Buchanan.
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